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Jensen, UT

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Overview


Jensen is a tiny town located in the state of Utah. With a population of 372 people and just one neighborhood, Jensen is the 148th largest community in Utah. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Jensen, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Jensen, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Jensen’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Jensen does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is .

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Jensen, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 48.98% of Jensen’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Jensen is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jensen who work in office and administrative support (13.61%), maintenance occupations (13.61%), and healthcare suport services (12.93%).

Also of interest is that Jensen has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Jensen is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Jensen really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Jensen perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Jensen has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Jensen a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

In Jensen, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.70 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Jensen is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Jensen isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Jensen is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Jensen have a very low rate of college education: just 6.08% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Jensen in 2022 was $47,843, which is wealthy relative to Utah and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $191,372 for a family of four. However, Jensen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Jensen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jensen residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Jensen include European, French, English, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Jensen is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Native American languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry and 25.3% have English ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Jensen are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 69.7% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 31.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.3%), and 13.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Jensen, UT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (25.3%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (5.2%), and residents who report German roots (5.1%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.2%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (77.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (13.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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